"Hate to ask, but see if he's got anything identifying on him."
Kit takes a breath and lets it out in a single, long exhale. It's a sound idea, and he can't find fault with the logic of it. "Right," he says, more to himself than to anyone else. This isn't the first dead body he's ever seen, nor is it likely to be the last. It shouldn't make his insides lurch so to pull that blanket back and reveal to himself, yet again, the bruised and battered face of the elf whose only discernible 'crime' was tending to ill children.
He searches the body with as much respect as he can manage, trying to move him gently when he must. The stink of decay doesn't cause his gorge to rise; he's long accustomed to that from his tenure in the Deep Roads. At length, however, he pauses. "He's got a mark on him of some kind," he says, considering it. The design isn't one that he recognizes, but it makes him chill in a way that is all too familiar; he could be looking at a casteless' brand. "Doesn't look like the kind of tattoo anyone would willingly put on himself, frankly."
cw discussion of dead bodies I guess
Kit takes a breath and lets it out in a single, long exhale. It's a sound idea, and he can't find fault with the logic of it. "Right," he says, more to himself than to anyone else. This isn't the first dead body he's ever seen, nor is it likely to be the last. It shouldn't make his insides lurch so to pull that blanket back and reveal to himself, yet again, the bruised and battered face of the elf whose only discernible 'crime' was tending to ill children.
He searches the body with as much respect as he can manage, trying to move him gently when he must. The stink of decay doesn't cause his gorge to rise; he's long accustomed to that from his tenure in the Deep Roads. At length, however, he pauses. "He's got a mark on him of some kind," he says, considering it. The design isn't one that he recognizes, but it makes him chill in a way that is all too familiar; he could be looking at a casteless' brand. "Doesn't look like the kind of tattoo anyone would willingly put on himself, frankly."